KEY WORD FORM

PRACTICES
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Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the following sentences.
1. There are some exceptions to every grammatical rule. EXCEPT
2. The engineering sector achieved significant growth last year. GROW
3. I have a collection of old records from my grandma. COLLECT
4. He'll surely be coming later. SURE
5. Eric Clapton's guitar solos are legendary. LEGEND
6. It was one of the most enjoyable plays I've seen recently. ENJOY
7. In her time, Marilyn Monroe was a very glamorous actress. GLAMOUR
8. It's impossible to tell whether he's lying or not. POSSIBLE
9. He's no worldwide star, but he had very humble beginnings. BEGIN
10. They took measurements of noise levels inside the building. MEASURE
11. He's a really reliable person. RELY
12. She made several excellent observations in her essay on Charles OBSERVE
Dickens.
13. Watching TV shows in English is definitely very useful to improve USE
your
listening skills.
14. The Internet is probably one of the best inventions ever. INVENT
15. The boat was 16 feet in length. LONG
16. Both accuracy and fluency are important when speaking a foreign ACCURATE
language.
17. You shouldn't have said that! It was a totally inappropriate remark. APPROPRIATE
18. Since the earliest times, civilisations have understood the IMPORTANT
importance of
time.
19. Doing puzzles keeps our brains fit and healthy. HEALTH
20. As well as gaining satisfaction, by doing puzzles we give our brains SATISFY
a good
workout.
21. The most successful games have sold in the millions. SUCCESS
22. People have discovered that doing puzzles is good for you. COVER
23. It's easy to find a solution to the problems posed. SOLVE
24. There has been an improvement in the power of their brains. IMPROVE
25. Some scientists argue that the brain gets better at a task the more SCIENCE
it repeats
it.
26. The improvement in the performance is something that happens PERFORM
naturally.
27. It remains uncertain whether puzzles are actually helping to boost CERTAIN
brainpower or not.
28. According to research, most people sleep less than 8 hours every SEARCH
day.
29. The advice passed down to our grandparents may contain some TRUE
truth.
30. A good example is the relationship between being cold and RELATION
catching a cold.
31. These high-heeled shoes are unsuitable for such rough terrain. SUIT
32. Colds are caused by viruses, so in the absence of a virus, you can't ABSENT
catch a
cold.
33. You're too young. This film is inappropriate for children your age. APPROPRIATE
34. Scientists now think that we may have viruses in our bodies SCIENCE
already.
35. In cold weather, for example, blood vessels in the nose get smaller FORTUNATE
to stop
heat escaping. Unfortunately, this also allows the cold virus to
attack the nose or throat more easily.
36. Victoria Falls in Africa is one of the most spectacular sights in the SPECTACLE
world.
37. It's also an incredible place for water sports. CREDIBLE
38. We need you to provide an accurate description of the situation. DESCRIBE
39. On arrival, it's the noise that makes the greatest impression. IMPRESS
40. The surrounding landscape is also well worth a visit. SURROUND
41. There's a post office a bit further/farther down the road. FAR
42. Six months after the accident, he still has difficulty walking. DIFFICULT
43. I can't play tennis that well because I'm a beginner. BEGIN
44. Don't go there. It's dangerous. DANGER
45. Read this. It'll be very useful for your trip to Australia. USE
46. I didn't find him that attractive, but my friend did. ATTRACT
47. The school has a reputation for being very up-to-date with REPUTE
technology.
48. These are designer clothes and that's why they are very DESIGN
expensive.
49. I left the party because it was extremely noisy in there. EXTREME
50. I had no choice but to tell him. CHOOSE
51. This cloth is made from natural fibers. NATURE
52. If you want to take care of the environment, it's important to CYCLE
recycle.
53. In the next few years, scientists will hopefully have found a cure SCIENCE
for
malaria.
54. According to the research, the epidemic started in Kuala Lumpur. SEARCH
55. Isolation from family and friends can lead to feelings of anxiety. ISOLATE
56. I was unable to understand what the problem was. ABLE
57. There will be a mixture of solo games and competitive games MIX
available.
58. Participants will later be asked for feedback on the event. FEED
59. It was an emotional reunion and we were all really touched when EMOTION
we
remembered how we had met.
60. I am writing to ask for further information on your Open Day. INFORM
61. This took place at the end of the twentieth century. TWENTY
62. People really enjoy(ed) the party. JOY
63. Meditation is great as a means of relaxation. RELAX
64. This method is a lot more effective than the previous one. EFFECT
65. Picasso was a Spanish artist who also lived in France. ART
66. There has been little movement in the negotiations since January. MOVE
67. Surprisingly enough, I didn't know she already had four children. SURPRISE
68. His voice was instantly recognizable. INSTANT
69. The only cure for boredom is creativity. BORE
70. This is a textile company specializing in denim. SPECIAL
71. Sadness is a part of life, but you have to be able to enjoy the SAD
others too.
72. Without that, I wouldn't be happy even if I was the richest man in RICH
the
world.
73. The music in the festival was so loud. It was deafening! DEAF
74. I don't think my marks can get higher because I already study to HIGH
the best of
my abilities.
75. The largest river fish in Europe lives in Spain! LARGE
76. Passeig de Gràcia is being widened so there is more room for WIDE
people to walk
on the pavement.
77. I can assure that if you study you will have no problems passing SURE
this test.
78. Nowadays there are lots of endangered species of animals in the DANGER
world, for
example, the panda.
79. I was encouraged to take the driving test by my friends. COURAGE
80. I see they've finally got round to widening the Shoreham road. WIDE
81. The teacher asked us to summarize the main ideas in the chapter SUMMARY
we had
read in class.
82. The top manager of the shop told me that my credit card was not VALIDATE
valid to
pay for the jeans which cost under 20€.
83. Art in the 20th century is usually referred to as modern art. MODERNIZE
84. Everybody listens to David Guetta's music. It's so commercial. COMMERCE
85. Butterflies are thoroughly classified by scientists. CLASS
86. She exemplifies the qualities of a good leader. EXAMPLE
87. Many people don't understand the simplicity of life. SIMPLE
88. It's impossible to tell those twins apart! They are identical. IDENTITY
89. He made several wrong generalisations about women. GENERAL
90. It was hard to differentiate between the two styles of music. DIFFERENCE
91. He hasn't finished the preparation course, so he's not qualified for QUALIFY
this job.
92. She was captivated by the colour of the plant. CAPTIVE
93. At the auction, Elton John's car was valued at 1 million euros. VALUE
94. The assassination took place next door at 2 am. ASSASSIN
95. The main characteristics of this painting are its bright colours and CHARACTER
its sense
of perspective.
96. Stability is important in a relationship. STABLE
97. Despite his familiarity with that type of vehicle, he had an accident FAMILIAR
because
a cat made him crash into a tree.
98. At the best moment of its empire, Rome had dominion over all the DOMINANT
Mediterranean.
99. Nowadays almost everything can be computerized thanks to the COMPUTER
use of
technology.
100. I wish I had the strength to do that. STRONG
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Complete the passage using the correct form of the words in the capital letters.
Exercise 1
To neighbors, Mr Stewart is a dull man who speaks very (1)and (1)POLITE
whose only form (2)is his job. And to a certain extent it's (2)ENTERTAIN
true, since Mr Stewart finds his job very (3)He (3)INTEREST
is an antique dealer and goes to work (4)every day. He handles (4)HAPPY
some (5)EXPENSE
very (5)pieces sometimes, which can make his job (6)DANGER
(6)as there have recently been quite a few (7)ROB
(7)at antique shops. So not (8)SURPRISE
(8), Mr Stewart decided that his own business needed (9)PROTECT
some extra (10)COMPLETE
(9)After having an alarm system put in, Mr Stewart doesn't
feel
(10)secure but he does feel more protected.
Exercise 2
You may know that Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean (1)TRADITION
cultures have (1)used garlic in their (2)VALUE
dishes. What you may not know is that garlic was also thought of (3)PROFESSION
as a (2)medicine by many ancient civilisations. Today, (4)INFORM
(3)in the field of nutrition have come up with new (5)ILL
(4)which is indeed quite surprising. Apparently, not (6)ADVANTAGE
only is garlic good for you but it also helps overcome various (7)BREATH
(5)The main (6)to eating (8)NATURE
garlic is of course bad (7)Cooking it reduces the strong smell (9)SERIOUS
and eating parsley, which is a (10)FAVOUR
(8)deodoriser, also helps minimise the smell. So, it's
time we took the benefits of g arlic(9)Why not add it to some of
your
(10)dishes!
Exercise 3
Being a (1), I often have to go on strange assignments. So (1)JOURNAL
when my editor told me to do a story on one of the (2)health (2)FAME
spas in Switzerland, I was only too happy to go and take it easy (3)VARY
for a week or two. However, when I got there and saw the (4)ANGRY
programme, I began to panic. I had to go on a diet and participate (5)BUILD
in a (3)of exercise classes. My (6)ORGANIZE
(4)turned to rage when they insisted I go to bed very (7)NEIGHBOUR
early so as to get up at 6:00 a. m. and eat breakfast in a (5)which (8)INVITE
looked like a greenhouse. I must admit that they ran an excellent (9)AMUSE
(6)Anyway, you (10)FRIGHT
can imagine how happy I was to see my familiar (7)when
I finally arrived home. A few months later, I received an
(8)rom the same clinic for a week's worth of free
treatment. My family thought it rather
(9)when they saw the (10)look on my face.
Exercise 4
My father was a police (1), my mother a (2)Their (1)INSPECT
 (3)to move to a small town when I was a child changed (2)TEACH)
my life. It was a very (4)place and of course living there meant (3)DECIDE
that I had (4)PEACE
much more (5)to go wherever I pleased. The people were
 (6)but I missed my close friends, my school and (5)FREE
the (7)city I had lived in. As I grew up, I realized that there(6)FRIEND
wasn't much for a young person to do there, except rush into (7)NOISE
(8). When I left, my parents were sad, but they
(8)MARRY
realized that staying there would only make me (9)The
big city I live in now is not very far away, so I (9)MISERY
can visit my parents (10)and have the best of both worlds. (10) FREQUENT
Exercise 5
The economic crisis facing many countries today, has created (1) EMPLOY
serious (2) ENERGY
(1)problems. (2)young people, willing to work, (3) DIFFICULT
are confronted by many (3)when trying to find a job. Filling in (4) APPLY
countless (4)forms and hearing that they are (5)for
(5) SUIT
the job because they don't have the right (6)can be
disheartening. (6) QUALIFY
Finding a job seems just (7)However, their (7) POSSIBLE
(8)shouldn't affect them nor make (8) DISAPPOINT
them give up. There is no straightforward (9) SOLVE
(9)other than (10)and persistence. (10) PATIENT
Exercise 6
There are a myriad of lifestyle issues affecting the youth of today.(1)REAL
Such is the pressure heaped on many school-goers to achieve (2)DESPAIR
academic excellence by their parents that these (1)
(3)PUSH
expectations are causing children to become hopelessly depressed.
Indeed, some, in their (2) to escape and their sense of(4)AMOUNT
guilt at being unable reach the levels of success demanded of(5)HARM
them by their (3) parents, either rebel in(6)VIRTUE
what is (7)DRAMA
(4) to a cry for help, or, worse still, engage in (5). It (8)BUD
is no coincidence that suicide rates, expecially amongst young
(9)PRIVATE
males, have been rising steadily for some time now. These are
tough times to be a teen. Then there are those who get hooked on (10) ERR
the internet; the (6) (11) SOCIAL
world becomes their reality. For these teens, their social circle (12) ROCKET
shrinks
(7) until, at last, their friendship sphere is limited solely
to their online (8). Not alone do they commonly suffer from
sleep
(9) on account of their destructive addiction to game
play and net-surfing, their behaviour may become so (10)
and peculiar over time as to be considered (11) . And while
they sit at their computer screens hidden away in splendid
isolation from the real world, such is the lack of exercise they get
that their calorie intake far exceeds what is necessary for them to
maintain a stable weight. In essence, due to their sedentary
lifestyle, their weight (12) until such time as they
become morbidly obese.
Exercise 7
The standard of television programming produced in this country(1)SHED
is in terminal decline. The (1) has become a(2)APPLY
meaningless term confined in its (2) to (3) days when
(3)GO
adult content felt the full force of censorship and was not allowed
to appear on the box until after 9:00 p.m. Nowadays, however, it(4)INFORM
seems anything goes any time. And, truth told, whatever anything (5)PICK
is, it seldom 'goes' for much longer than a (6)NET
half hour or so at any rate before it is interrupted by a commercial
(7)RUN
break.
And don't even get me started on those appalling (4) most of (8) YEAR
the networks run right the way through the night, one after
another, for up to thirty minutes at a time. lt is truly painful.
Terrestrial television is now, as far as I am concerned, a laughing
stock. All the quality has been bought up by the satellite networks,
with their big-money weight behind them, but even here (5) are
slim. In protest at the dire state of things, I have become a
converted (6). I look to the web now to find
good content. There, I can find just enough (7) of quality
programmes to prevent myself from falling into utter despair and
pining for the good old
days of (8).
Exercise 8
In January 2001, the (1) Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1)GOVERN
issued its latest report on climate change. Climate models worked(2)PRAISE
out by giant super-computers had become far more reliable since
(3)EQUIVOCATE
the previous report in 1995 and allowed them to (2)
the earlier projections for global warming. Their conclusions were (4)CONCENTRATE
that something very serious is happening and that it cannot be a (5)CATTLE
natural process. The 1990s was the hottest decade for 1,000 years (6)COMPOSE
and the Earth is warming faster than at any time in the last 10,000(7)LIVELY
years. According to the report, human activities are (3) (8)UNANIMOUS
to blame for the temperature rise. The burning of fossil fuels
releases carbon dioxide and, due to deforestation, there are fewer (9)EMIT
trees to absorb this gas and recycle it back into oxygen. Methane (10) ACT
(4) have also gone up dramatically
because of increases in rice culture and (5), both of which
generate methane from (6) vegetation. These
greenhouses gases trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and cause
the temperature to rise. In the worst case, the resulting melting of
ice-caps and glaciers would cause sea levels to rise by up to 88
cm, endangering the homes and (7) of tens of
millions of people who live in low-lying regions.
Unfortunately, there is far greater (8) among the world’s
scientists over the issue than among politicians. As long ago as
1990, the IPCC recommended a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide
(9), as the basic level
required to return the planet’s climate to a healthy level.
Governments globally failed to (10) these proposals. Now
that the dangers have been reaffirmed by the latest report, it is
high time that
governments took an active interest in exploring alternative,
renewable energy sources.
Exercise 9
People intuitively recognize the importance of self-esteem to their (1) COMMUNE
psychological health, so it isn't particularly remarkable that most (2)SOCIETY
of us try to protect and enhance it in ourselves whenever possible.(3)FUNCTION
What is remarkable is that attention to self-esteem has become (4)ACHIEVE
a(n) (1) concern, at least for Americans, who
(5)REGARD
see a favorable opinion of oneself as the central psychological
source from which all manner of positive outcomes spring. The(6)TITLE
corollary, that low self-esteem lies at the root of individual and
thus (2) problems and (3), has
sustained an ambitious social agenda for decades. Indeed,
campaigns to raise people's
sense of self-worth abound. Consider what transpired in California
in the
late 1980s. Prodded by State Assemblyman John Vasconcellos,
Governor George Deukmejian set up a task force on self-esteem
and personal and social responsibility. Vasconcellos argued that
raising self-esteem in young people would reduce crime, teen
pregnancy, drug abuse, school
(4) and pollution. At one point, he even expressed the
hope that these efforts would one day help balance the state
budget, a prospect predicated on the observation that people with
high (5) earn more than others and thus pay more in taxes.
Along with its other activities, the task force assembled a team of
scholars to survey the relevant literature. The results appeared in
a 1989 volume (6) The Social
Importance of Self-Esteem, which stated that "many, if not most,
of the major problems plaguing society have roots in the low self-
esteem of many of the people who make up society." In reality,
the report contained little to support that assertion.
Exercise 10
Pop art was a(n) (1) art style in which (2) objects(1)CONVENTION
such as comic strips, soup cans and road signs were used as(2)COMMON
subject matter, and were often incorporated into the work. The
(3)ICON
pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural
phenomenon of the late 1950s and ‘60s. Art critic Lawrence(4)UNIVERSE
Alloway, referring to the prosaic (3) of (5)EXPRESS
its
painting and sculpture, named the movement pop art. It(6)SUPREME
represented an attempt to return to a more objective and (4) (7)PRETEND
accepted form of art after the dominance in both the United States(8)COMPREHEND
and Europe of the highly personal abstract (5). The art form
was iconoclastic, rejecting the (9)DISCRIMINATE
(6) of the ‘high art’ of the past and the (7) of (10) FAVOUR
other contemporary avant-garde art. Pop art became a cultural
institution because of its close reflection of a particular social
situation and because its easily
(8) images were immediately exploited by the mass
media. Although the critics of pop art describe it as sensational
and non-aesthetic, its proponents saw it as an art that was
democratic and not (9), bringing
together both connoisseurs and untrained inexperienced viewers.
Even though public reaction to pop art was (10), it found
critical acceptance as a form of art suited to the highly
technological, mass media-
oriented society of western countries.
Answers
Exercise 1 key
1. politely 2. entertainment 3. Interesting 4. happily
5. expensive 6. dangerous 7. robberies 8. surprisingly
9. protection 10. completely
Exercise 2
1. traditionally 2. valuable 3. Professionals 4. information
5. illness 6. disadvantage 7. Breath 8. natural
9. seriously 10. favourite
Exercise 3
1. journalist 2. famous 3. variety 4. anger
5. building 6. organization 7. neighbourhood 8. invitation
9. amusing 10. frightened
Exercise
1. inspector
4 2. teacher 3. decision 4. peaceful
5. freedom 6. friendly 7. noisy 8. marriage
9. miserable 10. frequently
Exercise
1. unemployment
5 2. energetic 3. difficulties 4. application
5. unsuitable 6. qualifications 7. impossible 8. disappointment
9. solution 10. patience
Exercise
1. unrealistic
6 2. desperation 3. pushy 4. tantamount
5. self-harm 6. virtual 7. dramatically 8. buddies
9. deprivation 10. erractic 11. antisocial 12. skyrockets
Exercise
1. watershed
7 2. applicability 3. bygone 4. Infomercials
5. pickings 6. netizen 7. re-run [Link]
Exercise
1. intergovernmental 2. reappraise
8 [Link] 4. concentrations
5. cattle(-)raising/ breeding 6. decomposing [Link]
8. unanimity 9. emissions 10. enact
Exercise 9
1. communal 2. societal 3. dysfunctions 4.
underachievement
5. self-regard 6. entitled
Exercise 10
1. unconventional 2. commonplace 3. Iconography 4. universally
5. expressionism 6. supremacy 7. pretentiousness 8. comprehensible
9. discriminatory 10. unfavourable